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Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'

Whiskard, Spencer LU (2018) JAMM07 20171
Department of Law
Faculty of Law
Abstract
The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and... (More)
The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and microphone. Government officials whose job it is to look for physical and mental signs of subversion permanently man it. It is present in the homes of all politically relevant members of society and cannot be turned off. Today, such technology is not only possible but all too real. (Less)
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author
Whiskard, Spencer LU
supervisor
organization
course
JAMM07 20171
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Internet, Surveillance, Article 8, Right to Privacy, Technology, ECHR, ECtHR, IPA 2016, Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Hacking, Data, Digital, 1984, Freedom
language
English
id
8938637
date added to LUP
2018-04-26 13:59:52
date last changed
2018-04-26 13:59:52
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  abstract     = {{The danger that mass surveillance poses to concepts of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’ have long been a topic of fiction as well as of hard academic study. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is a work that some might disregard as mere post-apocalyptic whimsy but its arguably accurate recreation and prediction of the methods utilized by the totalitarian government to maintain absolute control over a population serves to give the novella a grim level of scholastic technicality and precision. The technology that forms the fictitious Ingsoc (English Socialism) government’s central instrument of oppression was impossible at the time the book was composed. Known as the telescreen, it has the simultaneous function of a television, security camera and microphone. Government officials whose job it is to look for physical and mental signs of subversion permanently man it. It is present in the homes of all politically relevant members of society and cannot be turned off. Today, such technology is not only possible but all too real.}},
  author       = {{Whiskard, Spencer}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Internet Surveillance Law in the UK and Article 8 'Right to Privacy'}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}